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Hard-boiled : working class readers and pulp magazines / Erin A. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Erin A. (Erin Ann), 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Popular literature--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Periodicals--Publishing--United States--History--20th century.
- Periodicals.
- Working class--Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.
- Working class.
- Detectives in literature.
- Crime in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the 1920's a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The "hard-boiled" stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940's. Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Reconstructing Readers; 1. The Hard-Boiled Writer and the literary Marketplace; 2. The Adman on the Shop Floor: Workers, Consumer Culture, and the Pulps; Part II : Reading Hard-Boiled Fiction; 3. Proletarian Plots; 4. Dressed to Kill; 5. Talking Tough; 6. The Office Wife; Afterword; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612701313
- 9781282701311
- 1282701312
- 9781592139118
- 1592139116
- 9780585366746
- 0585366748
- OCLC:
- 47008525
- Publisher Number:
- heb40063 hdl
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